Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

The company was a major target of anti-apartheid boycotts in the 1980s over its role in supporting the white South African government with fuel and money but just 192 rand ($22) in annual rent for two petrol stations on Umnini tribal land in KwaZulu-Natal, where blacks were not allowed to own land. billion pounds of ethylene a year.

Fossil Fuels 52

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 6, 2023

The Grand Jury’s two-year investigation uncovered systematic failure by government agencies in overseeing the fracking industry and fulfilling their responsibility to protect Pennsylvanians from the inherent risks of industry operations. Read more here.

Natural Gas 98

Natural Gas Waste Environmental Protection 2004 98

Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The company was a major target of anti-apartheid boycotts in the 1980s over its role in supporting the white South African government with fuel and money but just 192 rand ($22) in annual rent for two petrol stations on Umnini tribal land in KwaZulu-Natal, where blacks were not allowed to own land. billion pounds of ethylene a year.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The company was a major target of anti-apartheid boycotts in the 1980s over its role in supporting the white South African government with fuel and money but just 192 rand ($22) in annual rent for two petrol stations on Umnini tribal land in KwaZulu-Natal, where blacks were not allowed to own land. billion pounds of ethylene a year.

Fossil Fuels 52

Fossil Fuels 2019 2008 2015 52

Corp Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The company was a major target of anti-apartheid boycotts in the 1980s over its role in supporting the white South African government with fuel and money but just 192 rand ($22) in annual rent for two petrol stations on Umnini tribal land in KwaZulu-Natal, where blacks were not allowed to own land. billion pounds of ethylene a year.

Fossil Fuels 52

Fossil Fuels 2019 2008 2015 52

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 2, 2023

. -- Bursts Of Intense Natural Gas Emissions From Pigging Unit: On December 27, CNX Gas Co LLC’s Oak Springs stand-alone pig launcher/receiver along Farmer Lane in South Franklin Township, Washington County released bursts of dangerous methane emissions into the air around homes 1,500 feet away for over an hour.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

In 2012, the company became infamous again when it unsuccessfully sued Ben-Jei Tsuang, a professor at the Department of Environmental Engineering in National Chun Hsing University, who published a paper linking high cancer rates in Mailiao, Taiwan, to toxic dioxin and heavy metals air pollution from the Six Naphtha Cracking plant.

2016 52

2016 Air Pollution 2017 Waste 52

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 21, 2022

million in Alternative Fuel Incentive Grants (AFIGs) to 18 cleaner fuel transportation projects statewide that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other air pollutants. Local governments, schools, businesses, and organizations may apply for AFIG funding. Click Here for a list of grants awarded.

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Nitrogen Oxides Greenhouse Ground-Level Ozone Carbon Dioxide 52

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Steingraber noted similar conclusions were reached in 2014 when New York State banned fracking, saying “At the time, and again, this is nine years ago in 2014, there were 400 studies and investigations in the peer-reviewed scientific literature in government reports and by journalists that showed evidence for harm. They are also born smaller.

Natural Gas 116

Natural Gas Air Pollution 2002 2014 116

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

DEP published a second notice formally rescinding the previous 2004 Environmental Justice Public Participation Policy. The PennEnviroScreen will redefine environmental justice areas using 32 environmental, health and socioeconomic indicators that are spelled out in a 113-page PennEnviroScreen Methodology Document. Read more here.

Natural Gas 117

Natural Gas Air Pollution Waste Fossil Fuels 117

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 10, 2022

The hearing also featured testimony from staff at the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) which recently issued a report showing the deficiencies in policies and procedures for ensuring scientific integrity at public health agencies. A history of interference in federal science.

Politics 241

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 24, 2023

Apparently Congress did not relish the task of periodically resetting the standards itself The 1990 Amendments authorized EPA to set standards for 2004 and beyond. If we charged people $2 per mile, we could cover the whole government budget, social security and Medicaid included. These are called Tier 1 standards.

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Ground-Level Ozone Pollution Control Clean Air Act Ozone 232

Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

Individual Records & Summaries Click here for violation data on Koch Industries Total Penalties $935,266,865 (September 30, 2022) Number of Records 436 Books Axis of Ideology: Conservative Foundations and Public Policy (National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, March 2004).

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2024

Praise For New Energy Plan Labor, business, environmental, and government leaders praised the plan as a “bold” and “nation-leading” plan to create thousands of energy jobs, lower costs, and ensure Pennsylvania remains an energy leader below. Click Here for the Senate Republican reaction to Energy Plan. Click Here for Gov.

Clean Energy 85

Clean Energy Renewable Energy Electricity Climate Change 85

Vermont Law

AUGUST 7, 2023

Because local and state governments ultimately control how the money they receive gets used, agency oversight is paramount. 12] As federal investments roll out to the state, “air pollution projects are made possible to assess and address air quality across the industrial corridor.” [13] 3, 2022), [link] Id.

2023 52

2023 Air Pollution Waste 2021 52

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The Republican Herald said--“Remarkably, while suing the pipeline for environmental violations, the state government also heavily subsidizes the Shell refinery with $1.7 The first shale gas well was drilled in 2003 and that well was the first shale gas well fracked in 2004. Read more here. billion in tax credits.

Natural Gas 98

Natural Gas Waste Fossil Fuels 2003 98

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

After all, these agencies actions often have a direct impact on how well the public is protected from threats such as climate change impacts, natural disasters, unsafe food and drugs, transmissible disease, and air pollution.

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Environmental Progress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

None of that means climate change isn’t, and won’t continue to be, a factor in global health, particularly if action to prevent it also reduces air pollution, or removes other health stressors. Carbon emissions are thus following the same trajectory as other air pollutants.

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2020 Air Pollution Climate Change Natural Gas 95

Environmental Progress

JULY 9, 2020

The governor of Florida uses a definition, the governments of New South Wales in Australia use different definitions. The main reason is that the government of Australia, as in California, refused to control burns for both environmental and health reasons. I don't think it's necessarily deliberate, but I think that's the result.

Climate Change 61

Climate Change Electricity Sea Level Nuclear Power 61

Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Divided Ninth Circuit Said Juliana Plaintiffs Lacked Standing to Press Constitutional Climate Claims Against Federal Government. Ninth Circuit Heard Oral Argument in California Local Government Cases; Fossil Fuel Companies Said Juliana Decision Supported Their Position. Environmental Council of Sacramento v. County of Sacramento , No.

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2020 Fossil Fuels Climate Change Greenhouse 40

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Here are 1,198 articles published in local news media and in the PA Environment Digest during 2021 that tell the stories of thousands of individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us.

Conservation 64

Conservation 2021 Natural Gas Climate Change 64